Burnaby Updates - Page 161

officedweller · #**3201** Posted **Jan 2, 2021, 9:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

The rusted sections would be made of Cor-ten steel, designed to form a stable oxide layer to protect the steel instead of using galvanization. Perhaps they are just trialing a few sections as a pilot project.

The corten steel could also be part of the design - in the pics it blends more with the background for a better view, but I suppose would not be as visible at night.

SpongeG · #**3202** Posted **Jan 3, 2021, 1:18 AM**

it looks nicer how it blends into nature. Where exactly is it? close to the Vancouver border or further east?

zahav · #**3203** Posted **Jan 3, 2021, 8:43 AM**

I want to check that area out. I walked around River District a couple months back, and was tempted to take it further and check out this spot. Quite a bit of new building in that area as well (light industrial).

Those fences are totally necessary for those sections at least. There is a sizable drop off one on side, and even if it's a smaller one on the other, they'd have them. In Richmond, older houses were built quite a bit lower than new houses, the new houses have lots of pre-load in the site prep stage. Consequently, there are areas where some houses are quite a bit lower than their new house neighbours, and often with odd street alignments. Consequently, they have fences to account for the drop off, just like in your Burnaby photos.

Marshal · #**3204** Posted **Jan 3, 2021, 9:40 AM**

Fun fact: COR-TEN steel is a trademark for US Steel's brand of weathering steel alloy. There are many of them. The fun fact is the failure in the 1980's (?) of the COR-TEN steel facade of Concordia University's 22 story Arts Tower. The surface oxidation continued through the whole section of the material. It began to flake and eventually shed sizable chunks. The tower was fenced off and netted for several years while legal responsibility was determined. The steel was then removed and replaced with a glass panel system.

I don't remember the final determination of the cause for the uncontrolled corrosion: whether it was an error in the surface treatment (an accelerator and chemical control for evenness), or if it was the alloy itself.

officedweller · #**3205** Posted **Jan 16, 2021, 3:05 AM**

6450-6508 Telford Avenue

Looks like a superficial version of the 1700 Alberni proposal.
It would be nice if the shorter tower's roof more closely matched the taller tower's open crown.

So I guess "The Eclipse" is the Thind tower.

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The site will be subdivided into two legal parcels.
The proposal on the northern parcel is for a 51-storey high rise building comprised of 44 levels of
market strata residential uses atop a commercial podium with 6 levels of offices and one level of street fronting retail.
The southern parcel is proposed to be developed with a 22-storey market and non-market rental apartment building.

Details include:

575 total residential units;
408 condos;
167 rental units;
68,409 SF of office and retail space;
a total density of 9.13 FAR;
building heights of 575 ft and 222 ft.;
1,170 parking stalls.

https://www.vancouvermarket.ca/

Metro-One · #**3206** Posted **Jan 16, 2021, 4:24 AM**

Fantastic proposal and it gives us the heights of all its neighbors, haha!

Klazu · #**3207** Posted **Jan 16, 2021, 7:29 AM**

Holy smokes! This will work so well as the highlight building of the entire row and will dwarf Metroplace next door. Awesome but I do agree the smaller tower needing some work to better compliment the taller tower. You gotta lova Burnaby and its projects...

Spr0ckets · #**3208** Posted **Jan 16, 2021, 1:25 PM**

Nice.

So only one lot left in that Beresford tower row to be developed.
The lot immediately to the east of the Highline (or is it 'The Eclipse' now?) in between Sussex Avenue and Dow.

To the immediate east of that lot (and just west of Moda) there's currently a development ongoing for the usual tall tower and shorter non-market tower configuration by Matchpoint developments (but no images available yet nor any timeline).

The owner of that sliver of land is sitting on a virtual gold mine.
(especially considering the fact that the Matchpoint Developments lot next door had been sold for $100 Million just a few years ago).

I'm assuming the graphic showing all the towers (see below) and showing the Highline (The Eclipse) tower at 158m (520') is out of date and from a time before the height was revised to 177m (although that was when the floor count was increased to 53 floors. It has since been reduced back to 48 floors when they got rid of the hotel component, but no word on whether the height also came back down to 158m)

Nice graphic by the way - especially with how it shows the variation in all the towers on the row.

vanman · #**3209** Posted **Jan 17, 2021, 4:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

So I guess "The Eclipse" is the Thind tower.

Somebody must've confused Thind's Brentwood project "Eclipse at Lumina" with "Highline".

mcminsen · #**3210** Posted **Jan 23, 2021, 2:51 PM**

Gilmore/Brentwood as seen from Rupert Station.

Jan.22 '21, my pics

Lexus · #**3211** Posted **Jan 30, 2021, 7:30 PM**

2021, January 30
All towers are occupied now.

Untitled by Lexus, on Flickr

officedweller · #**3212** Posted **Jan 31, 2021, 5:32 AM**

I wonder if the next tower has been delayed/postponed.

Lexus · #**3213** Posted **Jan 31, 2021, 7:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

I wonder if the next tower has been delayed/postponed.

Possibly. There was some activity when they tore down a werahore, but now its dead.

Sheba · #**3214** Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 6:19 PM**

I just came across this:
REZ # 17-13, 2421 Alpha Avenue
Construction of a high-rise residential tower with live/work units fronting Alaska Street, 165 units.
Final Adoption 2020.12.14

Marcon is calling it Tailor and sales start this month.

officedweller · #**3215** Posted **Feb 5, 2021, 3:31 AM**

Thanks. I was wondering where that one was located.

officedweller · #**3216** Posted **Feb 5, 2021, 3:38 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sheba

I just came across this:
REZ # 17-13, 2421 Alpha Avenue
Construction of a high-rise residential tower with live/work units fronting Alaska Street, 165 units.
Final Adoption 2020.12.14

Marcon is calling it Tailor and sales start this month.

That's the parcel excluded from the Aoyuan development called The Grove, and facing the railway tracks.

https://www.urbanyvr.com/aoyuan-cana...twood-burnaby/

Ghosted in here:

https://www.urbanyvr.com/aoyuan-cana...twood-burnaby/

Klazu · #**3217** Posted **Feb 5, 2021, 6:28 AM**

Nice skyline filler but the railroad is going to make this a noisy building to live.

SpongeG · #**3218** Posted **Feb 14, 2021, 12:21 AM**

I saw an article a few days ago and cannot find it again, but there is a proposal for an office building on Kingsway near Willingdon, looks to be next to or is part of where the save on foods store is. Does anyone have the info?

Klazu · #**3219** Posted **Feb 14, 2021, 12:29 AM**

I think you mean Capital Point, which is just a full renovation of the current two office towers.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/capi...-office-towers

SpongeG · #**3220** Posted **Feb 14, 2021, 12:31 AM**

no not that one, a brand new one, on the SW corner of willingdon or next to it. I read it on my phone but I can't remember if it was Dailyhive or Burnaby Now or just Google news nut it said there was a proposal for a new office building, maybe 11 storeys?